About the founders

Dr Špela Miroševič

Dr Špela Miroševič

PhD

Dr Špela Miroševič, PhD, a CTNNB1 mother, is the Co-Founder and CEO of the CTNNB1 Foundation, a global non-profit organisation advancing the development of the world’s first gene therapy for CTNNB1 syndrome. With a background in biopsychology and a PhD in biomedicine, she bridges scientific research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. Under her leadership, a global research consortium into CTNNB1 syndrome has been established, over €4 million in funding has been raised, and national legislation has been changed to release €1 million in public funding for rare disease therapies. As both a scientist and the mother of a child with a rare disease, Dr Miroševič is deeply committed to accelerating access to life-changing treatments. Her expertise and the partnerships she has built will strengthen Gene2Cure’s mission to deliver therapies as quickly as possible to the patients who need them most.augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.

Prof. Leszek Lisowski

PhD, MBA.

Prof. Leszek Lisowski, PhD MBA is a world-leading expert in vectorology with over 20 years of experience in developing and manufacturing viral vectors. He received his PhD from Cornell University / Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York and then continued his scientific career as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA under the mentorship of Prof. Mark A Kay…

Prof. Leszek Lisowski
A/Prof. Duško Lainšček

A/Prof. Duško Lainšček

DVM, PhD.

Asst. Prof. Dr Duško Lainšček, DVM, PhD received his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Medical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2017. He is employed as the Research Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, leading the Laboratory for in vivo experiments and the Preclinical Research Department at the Center for the Technologies of Gene and Cell Therapies. augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.